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RANGELEY — “Love, Work and Knowledge – The Life and Trials of Wilhelm Reich,” will screen for three nights at the RFA Lakeside Theater. The film will be shown at 7 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, July 9 through 11.
Financed entirely by three international crowdfunders in 2014, 2016 and 2017, the documentary was filmed in Austria, Germany, Norway, as well ad in New York, Pennsylvania, and the Maine communities of Ellsworth Falls, Hancock and Rangeley, and the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University.
Wilhelm Reich, M.D. (1897-1957) was a pioneering and controversial psychiatrist, research physician and scientist who graduated from the University of Vienna medical school, studied with Sigmund Freud and Nobel laureate Julius Wagner-Jauregg, M.D., immigrated to America on the eve of World War Two and, in 1945, established a laboratory and research center in Rangeley.
In the 1950s, Reich’s publications — books, research journals and bulletins — were banned and burned by order of a United States Federal Court. The destructions took place in Rangeley and New York City. Completed at the end of 2017, the film is being screened in theaters and university-affiliated cinemas in America, Europe and South Africa. For more information, visit www.loveworkknowledge.com. For a schedule of events at the RFA Lakeside Theater, visit rangeleyarts.org.
